Comments on: Oh, It’s Tuesday: My Least Favorite Myths About My Interracial Relationship

By: Brandy Black

Brandy Black — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:16:04 +0000

I Love this post and I'm re-posting on The Next Family. I love your voice E.

By: Brandy Black

Brandy Black — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:16:00 +0000

I Love this post and I'm re-posting on The Next Family. I love your voice E.

By: The Next Family » My Least Favorite Myths About My Interracial Relationship- A Blog Post from Fierce and Nerdy

Tue, 24 Nov 2009 18:15:10 +0000

[...] is a blog post taken from the Fabulous blog site Fierce and Nerdy By: Ernessa [...]

By: ernessa

ernessa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:52:05 +0000

It's weird, b/c I think when I tell black people I'm married, they ASSUME I'm with a white man, so hiding my status isn't an otion. But the problem is that many black people hold these opins on blogs and IRL w/ their black friends, but won't say it to your face. So I'm not sure if we will ever really be able to truly dispel these myths.

By: ernessa

ernessa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:52:00 +0000

By: ernessa

ernessa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:48:15 +0000

This is annoying. My BFF also loves to hike. Is this becoming like a reverse stereotype. Does every BW in an IR like to hike except for me?

By: ernessa

ernessa — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 06:48:00 +0000

This is annoying. My BFF also loves to hike. Is this becoming like a reverse stereotype. Does every BW in an IR like to hike except for me?

By: MMKV

MMKV — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:09:24 +0000

I think perhaps this blog needs to be required reading for everyone who went to my high school, several people I knew in college, a few grad school folks and I just might carry it around to hand out from time to time. I think the myth that has always been the most challenging for me is the "black enough" myth. I mean I joke with friends all the time about "getting my black card yanked," but deep down inside it is hard for me. I was being called an "oreo" long before I met my husband. I remember cleaning up "wanna be white bitch" when it was spray painted on my locker in school and having a girl I went to school with tell my African American Studies teacher, who happened to be Armenian, that he had as much right to teach the class as I had to be in it. So I must admit even today (and this is hard to be honest about), I found that I prefer for people (particularly black people) to get to know me before they know I am in a interracial marriage.

By: MMKV

MMKV — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 04:09:00 +0000

By: Keya

Keya — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 02:14:14 +0000

I love to hike. And I love that my husband loves to do it too. But I have heard the black folk don't hike thing before. LOL